Trial Balance Work Sheet

Theresa TRost at ontera.net
Wed Jun 5 15:36:28 EDT 2013


Thanks Ian for your input and thank you Colin for your instructions.  I'm
sure that my accountant wants the Trial Balance Work Sheet as a spreadsheet
file and not my GnuCash file as you pointed out, Ian.  I've downloaded
OpenOffice and followed Colin's instructions for creating a spreadsheet file
in OpenOffice Calc and everything worked out very well. In fact, it alsmost
seemed too easy.  Now I won't look like such a nube (though that is what I
am) when I hand everything over to the accountant. :)

Theresa


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Today's Topics:

   1. Data Migration (Dave & Karyn)
   2. Transactions Report (John R. Sowden)
   3. Re: Selecting a Business/chart of Accounts when starting
      (John R. Sowden)
   4. RE: Year end Trial Balance sheet (Theresa)
   5. Re: Transactions Report (Elena Khrissanova)
   6. Re: Data Migration (Jonas Lippuner)
   7. Re: Year end Trial Balance sheet (Ian Konen)
   8. Re: Selecting a Business/chart of Accounts when starting
      (Michael Hendry)
   9. Re: Selecting a Business/chart of Accounts when starting
      (David Carlson)
  10. Re: Selecting a Business/chart of Accounts when starting
      (Maf. King)
  11. Re: Selecting a Business/chart of Accounts when starting
      (Michael Hendry)
  12. Re: Entering transactions that require a currency conversion
      (Ian K)
  13. Re: Entering transactions that require a currency conversion
      (culmore)
  14. Re: Selecting a Business/chart of Accounts when starting
      (Kevin Reid)
  15. Re: Entering transactions that require a currency conversion
      (Derek Atkins)
  16. Re: General Ledger Listing (Derek Atkins)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 16:20:47 -0700
From: "Dave & Karyn" <dkwright at surewest.net>
To: <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Cc: <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Data Migration
Message-ID: <000801ce617a$254c8800$6fe59800$@net>
Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"

I'm considering purchasing an iMac computer.  I currently maintain qc on a
Windows based computer.  I can load the program ok, but how to I transfer
the data files?



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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:57:25 -0700
From: "John R. Sowden" <jsowden at americansentry.net>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Transactions Report
Message-ID: <51AE7EE5.8030407 at americansentry.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

I am entering data for the fy 6/12 to 5/13 period.  My initial
transactions are to post the opening balances from the previous year.  I
am using the General Ledger Selection because I am not taking the funds
from a source account (eg cash).  First when I select the Transactions
Report in the Reports menu, I get none. Then I select accounts: all,
filter: none,dates start of year, end of year.  I confirmed that the
dates are correct under edit>preferences.  I have entered 2 transactions
and I am in the process of entering the third.  Each transaction has
about 10 GL accounts.  Two of the transactions have zero amounts.  1 has
3 amounts.  Of course they are all in balance (especially the ones with
zero amounts  :) ).  In the process I realized that I did not enter all
of the accounts (depreciation contra accts)./  I went back and entered
them.  Now I don't remember where I was in the 3rd transaction, as I
cannot see any of them.

I am sure there is a logical explanation.

John



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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:05:02 -0700
From: "John R. Sowden" <jsowden at americansentry.net>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Selecting a Business/chart of Accounts when starting
Message-ID: <51AE80AE.6060600 at americansentry.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

On 06/04/2013 04:18 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> On 6/4/2013 4:41 PM, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
>> John R. Sowden wrote:
>>
>>> Instead of being locked into starting a 'default' accounts database,
>>> can I open gc with no set of accounts, or a window listing the
>>> existing ones with the 'new' option?  Then I can select the one that
>>> I want.
>>>
>>> Is there a command line option?
>>>
>>> John
>>
> John,
>
> If your goal is to have more than one set of books, say My_books,
> Moms_books, just create two data files or even 17 different data files.
> Then, depending on your OS you can put icons on your desktop then double
> click on whichever one you want to work with next.
>
> David C
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worked like a charm!




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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 19:19:11 -0500
From: "Theresa" <TRost at ontera.net>
To: "Colin Law" <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
Subject: RE: Year end Trial Balance sheet
Message-ID: <KGEALMEBKKPHPFABHCKPCEAFCCAA.TRost at ontera.net>
Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="UTF-8"

Great tip Colin.  I was a bit confused for awhile because I didn't know
GnuCash had opened with the file I had saved.  I get it now.  Thanks.

T

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Law [mailto:clanlaw at googlemail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 4:02 PM
To: Theresa
Cc: Derek Atkins; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Year end Trial Balance sheet


On 4 June 2013 21:41, Theresa <TRost at ontera.net> wrote:
> I couldn't figure out how to "copy" the file as you suggested Derek.
> However, I was able to "save as" an xml file - I think that's what you
> meant? hopefully that will do for my accountant.  On to the next item on
my
> accountant's list.

Remember that if you do Save As and close GnuCash then the next time
you run the program it will default to opening the new saved file not
the original.  Assuming that this is not what you want then the best
thing is, after Save As, to do File and select the original file from
the recent file lists to re-open it before closing GC.  It is also a
good idea, when doing Save As for this purpose, to give the file a
different name so that you can distinguish between the two in the
recent file list.

Colin

>
> T
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Atkins [mailto:derek at ihtfp.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 8:28 PM
> To: Theresa
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Year end Trial Balance sheet
>
>
>
> On Mon, June 3, 2013 9:02 pm, Theresa wrote:
>> My accountant wants a year end trial balance work sheet and a copy of the
>> file on a memory stick.  I managed to print a trial balance sheet - to my
>> utter amazement - but I can't seem to make a copy of the file.  Does
>> anyone
>> know how I can do this?
>
> Just copy the file, the same way you'd copy a Word Document or Excel
> Spreadsheet.
>
>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
>
> -derek
>
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 18:29:02 -0700
From: Elena Khrissanova <mrskhris at gmail.com>
To: "John R. Sowden" <jsowden at americansentry.net>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Transactions Report
Message-ID:
	<CACbFvrg8iJytyN2B78i3+GvVF3JVt3S0NDmYFs5KHru+0M3CPQ at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Hi John,

After clicking "Select All" try also clicking on "Select Children".
Looks like "Select All" selects only top-level accounts.

Elena Khrissanova

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 4:57 PM, John R. Sowden
<jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
> I am entering data for the fy 6/12 to 5/13 period.  My initial
transactions
> are to post the opening balances from the previous year.  I am using the
> General Ledger Selection because I am not taking the funds from a source
> account (eg cash).  First when I select the Transactions Report in the
> Reports menu, I get none. Then I select accounts: all, filter: none,dates
> start of year, end of year.  I confirmed that the dates are correct under
> edit>preferences.  I have entered 2 transactions and I am in the process
of
> entering the third.  Each transaction has about 10 GL accounts.  Two of
the
> transactions have zero amounts.  1 has 3 amounts.  Of course they are all
in
> balance (especially the ones with zero amounts  :) ).  In the process I
> realized that I did not enter all of the accounts (depreciation contra
> accts)./  I went back and entered them.  Now I don't remember where I was
in
> the 3rd transaction, as I cannot see any of them.
>
> I am sure there is a logical explanation.
>
> John
>
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:34:42 -0700
From: Jonas Lippuner <jonas at lippuner.ca>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Data Migration
Message-ID: <51AE95B2.7030403 at lippuner.ca>
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Hi Dave & Karyn,

On your old computer, open GC, go to File > Save As... and save it as
an XML file to a folder of your choice. This will put everything into
one file. Then simply transfer that file to the new computer (e.g. by
memory stick) and open that file in GC there. That will transfer all
your data.


Best,
Jonas


Dave & Karyn wrote:
> I'm considering purchasing an iMac computer.  I currently maintain
> qc on a Windows based computer.  I can load the program ok, but how
> to I transfer the data files?
>
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:37:27 -0400
From: Ian Konen <iankonen at gmail.com>
To: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: Year end Trial Balance sheet
Message-ID:
	<CAAR3KCQ4QE5i_t85TfhE7ntQ4fQwagqTDBFVzEmsh8O8G0Q+7A at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Hi Theresa,

I'm a little late to this discussion, but I think there's some confusion
among relevant participants about what you meant by "the file" in your
original question, and what you got with "save as".  You were discussing a
generated *report* (trial balance IIRC), said you could print it but
couldn't figure out how to cope "the file".  I read that as you want a file
representing the *report* so that you can transmit it electronically to
your accountant, not that you want all the data from your GnuCash working
file.  If I'm wrong , and you're really trying to get your accountant to
help you in GnuCash, then you can skip the rest...

If you're trying to transmit a trial balance report to you accountant,
David's answer was probably the best approach: either export the *report*
to HTML (using File->Export->Export report) OR "print the report" to a PDF
file.  Until you do that, I don't think the report exists as a stand alone
file...it's part of your data file.  Anyway, either of those formats, HTML
or PDF, should be readable by anybody who is asking for an electronic file.
 That last step of converting the HTML report to OpenOffice Calc (and then
probably on to an excel file) will save your accountant the effort of
reading numbers with his eyes and typing them into his/her favorite
accounting software, but I suspect is overkill.

If you selected File-Save As and saved a new XML file, you're not saving a
copy of the *report*.  You've made a new copy of all of your GnuCash data
(the accounts, the transactions, the invoices, and yeah, also the reporst
in question) and you saved it in the specific data format used by GnuCash.
 Unless your accountant happens to also be a GnuCash user, he/she will not
be able to read the trail balance report or get any other useful
information about your accounts.


On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Theresa <TRost at ontera.net> wrote:

> Great tip Colin.  I was a bit confused for awhile because I didn't know
> GnuCash had opened with the file I had saved.  I get it now.  Thanks.
>
> T
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Law [mailto:clanlaw at googlemail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 4:02 PM
> To: Theresa
> Cc: Derek Atkins; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Year end Trial Balance sheet
>
>
> On 4 June 2013 21:41, Theresa <TRost at ontera.net> wrote:
> > I couldn't figure out how to "copy" the file as you suggested Derek.
> > However, I was able to "save as" an xml file - I think that's what you
> > meant? hopefully that will do for my accountant.  On to the next item on
> my
> > accountant's list.
>
> Remember that if you do Save As and close GnuCash then the next time
> you run the program it will default to opening the new saved file not
> the original.  Assuming that this is not what you want then the best
> thing is, after Save As, to do File and select the original file from
> the recent file lists to re-open it before closing GC.  It is also a
> good idea, when doing Save As for this purpose, to give the file a
> different name so that you can distinguish between the two in the
> recent file list.
>
> Colin
>
> >
> > T
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Derek Atkins [mailto:derek at ihtfp.com]
> > Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 8:28 PM
> > To: Theresa
> > Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > Subject: Re: Year end Trial Balance sheet
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, June 3, 2013 9:02 pm, Theresa wrote:
> >> My accountant wants a year end trial balance work sheet and a copy of
> the
> >> file on a memory stick.  I managed to print a trial balance sheet - to
> my
> >> utter amazement - but I can't seem to make a copy of the file.  Does
> >> anyone
> >> know how I can do this?
> >
> > Just copy the file, the same way you'd copy a Word Document or Excel
> > Spreadsheet.
> >
> >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
> >
> > -derek
> >
> > --
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> >        derek at ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com
> >        Computer and Internet Security Consultant
> >
> >
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 09:20:49 +0100
From: Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com>
To: "John R. Sowden" <jsowden at americansentry.net>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Selecting a Business/chart of Accounts when starting
Message-ID: <2DE3B03E-CE24-412A-A43B-674730266728 at gmail.com>
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On 5 Jun 2013, at 01:05, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:

> On 06/04/2013 04:18 PM, David Carlson wrote:
>> On 6/4/2013 4:41 PM, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
>>> John R. Sowden wrote:
>>>
>>>> Instead of being locked into starting a 'default' accounts database,
>>>> can I open gc with no set of accounts, or a window listing the
>>>> existing ones with the 'new' option?  Then I can select the one that
>>>> I want.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a command line option?
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>
>> John,
>>
>> If your goal is to have more than one set of books, say My_books,
>> Moms_books, just create two data files or even 17 different data files.
>> Then, depending on your OS you can put icons on your desktop then double
>> click on whichever one you want to work with next.
>>
>> David C
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>>
> worked like a charm!

That's odd - from previous threads on the list, I'd understood that
double-clicking on a GnuCash file icon would open the most recently opened
GnuCash file, not the one that had been double-clicked.

Has this behaviour been changed recently?

Michael

>
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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 04:00:18 -0500
From: David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Selecting a Business/chart of Accounts when starting
Message-ID: <51AEFE22.4030909 at gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

On 6/5/2013 3:20 AM, Michael Hendry wrote:
> On 5 Jun 2013, at 01:05, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net>
wrote:
>
>> On 06/04/2013 04:18 PM, David Carlson wrote:
>>> On 6/4/2013 4:41 PM, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
>>>> John R. Sowden wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Instead of being locked into starting a 'default' accounts database,
>>>>> can I open gc with no set of accounts, or a window listing the
>>>>> existing ones with the 'new' option?  Then I can select the one that
>>>>> I want.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a command line option?
>>>>>
>>>>> John
>>> John,
>>>
>>> If your goal is to have more than one set of books, say My_books,
>>> Moms_books, just create two data files or even 17 different data files.
>>> Then, depending on your OS you can put icons on your desktop then double
>>> click on whichever one you want to work with next.
>>>
>>> David C
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> gnucash-user mailing list
>>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
>>> -----
>>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
>>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
>>>
>>>
>> worked like a charm!
> That's odd - from previous threads on the list, I'd understood that
double-clicking on a GnuCash file icon would open the most recently opened
GnuCash file, not the one that had been double-clicked.
>
> Has this behaviour been changed recently?
>
> Michael
>
No, it has not.  The difference is whether you are looking at the icon
that represents the program or at icons that represent data files.  You
can create an icon to represent any data file such as a document,
spreadsheet, GnuCash file or even a picture of your pet and place it on
your desktop for easy reference.  Since those icons represent data
files, they open the specific data file with the appropriate program.

The procedure that you use to create these data file icons is slightly
different depending on whether you are in Windows, Apple or Linux.

Curiously, the icons that represent data files look almost identical to
the program icons.  I think that they should look different, but I am
not about to learn how to customize the appearance of icons.

David C


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Message: 10
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:02:35 +0100
From: "Maf. King" <maf at chilwell.net>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Selecting a Business/chart of Accounts when starting
Message-ID: <21418697.E73kGBFE3l at calufrax.standbyevents.co.uk>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

On Wed 5 June 13 09:20:49 Michael Hendry wrote:

> >
> > worked like a charm!
>
> That's odd - from previous threads on the list, I'd understood that
> double-clicking on a GnuCash file icon would open the most recently opened
> GnuCash file, not the one that had been double-clicked.
>
> Has this behaviour been changed recently?
>
> Michael


Hi Michael,

I have always found it to be the case on Linux that GC can open correctly
with
a clicked data file.  Just starting the program from the menu (or command
line) uses the most-recently-open file.

Can't speak for Windows behaviour, but I think it is the same.

ISTR that Apples have a problem with file association, however, and AFAIK
trying to open a specific data file by clicking doesn't work, but others may
know if that has recently changed.

HTH
Maf.



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Message: 11
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 11:20:39 +0100
From: Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com>
To: David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Selecting a Business/chart of Accounts when starting
Message-ID: <625DF314-4823-44B4-BCB0-2020A6E7281F at gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii


On 5 Jun 2013, at 10:00, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/5/2013 3:20 AM, Michael Hendry wrote:
>> On 5 Jun 2013, at 01:05, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net>
wrote:
>>
>>> On 06/04/2013 04:18 PM, David Carlson wrote:
>>>> On 6/4/2013 4:41 PM, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
>>>>> John R. Sowden wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Instead of being locked into starting a 'default' accounts database,
>>>>>> can I open gc with no set of accounts, or a window listing the
>>>>>> existing ones with the 'new' option?  Then I can select the one that
>>>>>> I want.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there a command line option?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> John
>>>> John,
>>>>
>>>> If your goal is to have more than one set of books, say My_books,
>>>> Moms_books, just create two data files or even 17 different data files.
>>>> Then, depending on your OS you can put icons on your desktop then
double
>>>> click on whichever one you want to work with next.
>>>>
>>>> David C
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>>> worked like a charm!
>> That's odd - from previous threads on the list, I'd understood that
double-clicking on a GnuCash file icon would open the most recently opened
GnuCash file, not the one that had been double-clicked.
>>
>> Has this behaviour been changed recently?
>>
>> Michael
>>
> No, it has not.  The difference is whether you are looking at the icon
> that represents the program or at icons that represent data files.  You
> can create an icon to represent any data file such as a document,
> spreadsheet, GnuCash file or even a picture of your pet and place it on
> your desktop for easy reference.  Since those icons represent data
> files, they open the specific data file with the appropriate program.
>
> The procedure that you use to create these data file icons is slightly
> different depending on whether you are in Windows, Apple or Linux.
>
> Curiously, the icons that represent data files look almost identical to
> the program icons.  I think that they should look different, but I am
> not about to learn how to customize the appearance of icons.


I only have one set of accounts ("MDH.gnucash"), so I generally simply open
my accounts using the GnuCash icon in my iMac's toolbar.

Looking into my "Accounts" folder using the iMac's "Finder" (equivalent to
"Explorer" in Windows,  or "Nautilus" in Ubuntu) I can see numerous backup
files, some automatically generated by GnuCash, but also including some
files I've deliberately created using "Save As", such as
MDH_Before_Year_End_31_03_13.gnucash.

Double-clicking any of these files starts up GnuCash, but opens not the file
I've double-clicked, but "MDH.gnucash".

This is not the default behaviour when any other data file's icon is
double-clicked in "Finder", and exactly the same happens when I right click
on the file's icon and choose to "Open with" GnuCash - which is the default
option.

Perhaps this is specific to the Mac version?

(GnuCash 2.4.11 and OS X Version 10.8.3).

Michael


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Message: 12
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 03:38:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ian K <ik522000 at yahoo.co.uk>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Entering transactions that require a currency conversion
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Is it possible it is autofilling the new transaction? If that's the case it
won't prompt you for the exchange rate, it will fill it in from the previous
transaction. This would occur if the description of the new transaction is
the same as the old one.



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Message: 13
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 03:50:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: culmore <culmore at gmail.com>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Entering transactions that require a currency conversion
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Ian K wrote
> Is it possible it is autofilling the new transaction? If that's the case
> it won't prompt you for the exchange rate, it will fill it in from the
> previous transaction. This would occur if the description of the new
> transaction is the same as the old one.

Good thought Ian. But I tried a transaction where I filled in the memo as

"zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzhhhhhh"

and still not currency conversion appeared. ( I have never used that for a
memo before.)



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Message: 14
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 07:37:23 -0700
From: Kevin Reid <kpreid at switchb.org>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Selecting a Business/chart of Accounts when starting
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On Jun 5, 2013, at 2:02, Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:

> ISTR that Apples have a problem with file association, however, and AFAIK
> trying to open a specific data file by clicking doesn't work, but others
may know if that has recently changed.

Mac OS X, unlike Linux desktops and Windows (and like original Mac OS), does
not pass the name of an opened file as a command-line argument, but rather
as an IPC (Apple Event) after the process has been started.

(This also fits into the expectation on Mac OS X that if you open a file
while an application is running, that same process will display the
additional file -- which could not happen, or at least would not be the
straightforward default, if the sole communication mechanism were based on
starting a process.)

Presumably the problem here is that that GnuCash does not implement the
response to said event -- this is the usual failure mode of ?ported?
applications -- but I have not looked into this case.

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Message: 15
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:51:58 -0400
From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
To: culmore <culmore at gmail.com>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Entering transactions that require a currency conversion
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culmore <culmore at gmail.com> writes:

> Ian K wrote
>> Is it possible it is autofilling the new transaction? If that's the case
>> it won't prompt you for the exchange rate, it will fill it in from the
>> previous transaction. This would occur if the description of the new
>> transaction is the same as the old one.
>
> Good thought Ian. But I tried a transaction where I filled in the memo as
>
> "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzhhhhhh"
>
> and still not currency conversion appeared. ( I have never used that for a
> memo before.)

Are you sure that the current account has a different currency than the
transfer account you've specified?

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Message: 16
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:54:18 -0400
From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
To: "Theresa" <TRost at ontera.net>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: General Ledger Listing
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"Theresa" <TRost at ontera.net> writes:

> What do accountants mean by General Ledger Listing?  Do my accountants
want
> a report of some sort?

Probably either a full Transaction Report or a GL Report.

> Theresa R

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